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Decentralized Democracy

Ontario Assembly

43rd Parl. 1st Sess.
October 31, 2023 09:00AM

Madam Speaker, I appreciated the member’s—he doesn’t have a great singing voice, but I appreciated the poetry, John, you brought in the House this afternoon.

I was just curious—it’s wonderful to hear that the opposition is ready to support us, and I heard it inferred from the previous member that they also feel that the carbon tax is inappropriate as a cost driver for the families of Ontario, so they’re coming around. It took them five years to get to agreeing with us that we need a million and a half homes in the province of Ontario, and I just want to clarify that. I understand that the NDP is supporting this piece of legislation. Does the member from Timiskaming–Cochrane truly support the fact that we need a million and a half homes in the province of Ontario?

I know there are private sector companies that will build tiny homes for around $250,000 a unit, fully furnished and delivered and built on-site. I’m just wondering, since we’re talking about housing, how the member feels about the government taking control of all housing construction in the city of Toronto and the implications that will have to the taxpayer—the money they will have to tax them—in order to make that happen?

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